Feature
Vacation mode: pause your habits, keep your streak
In habiloop you can pause one habit or all of them at once, for a holiday, a flu or a month where life is simply full. Paused days aren't due: your streak waits, no freeze day gets used and reminders stay quiet. For a single rest day there's "Skip today".
By Daniel Leuchter ·
A planned break is not a missed day
Two weeks on a Greek island without a gym, five days in bed with a fever, a move, a newborn. A streak counter that doesn't know about any of this greets you with a zero when you're back, and that zero is where a lot of habits end. Freeze days catch the odd slip, but they're not made for a two-week break you knew about in advance.
habiloop keeps the two apart: freeze days for days you meant to do it and didn't, a pause for days you've decided to leave out.
Pausing everything for a holiday
Open the pause
In the Today view, tap "Pause everything" below your habits. The same option sits in the settings under Pause.
Pick the dates
Start today or on a later day, say the morning your flight leaves. Choose a last day, or leave it open until you resume.
Add a reason if you like
Vacation, sick or something else. It's optional, and leaving it empty changes nothing.
While your account is paused, the Today view shows a banner with Loopi in a deck chair. Back early? "Resume everything" ends the pause right away.
Pausing just one habit
Sometimes only one habit has to wait: your knee needs a break from running, but water and reading carry on. Open the menu on the habit's Today card with "…", a long press or a right click and choose "Pause". Paused habits move into a folded section at the bottom of the Today view, each with a "Resume" button.
What a pause does to streaks, stats and reminders
- Paused days aren't due. They don't break your streak and don't use a freeze day.
- They stay out of your completion rate and don't count against a perfect day.
- Paused habits send no push reminders. During an account pause the evening check stays quiet too.
- If you do it anyway, it counts: go for a run on holiday and you get the day, XP included.
- Quit habits stay neutral while paused: no days free are added, and going over the limit doesn't break anything.
- Weekly goals shrink with the paused days, rounded up. A fully paused week doesn't count at all.
- On the habit's page, paused days show up hatched in the heatmap.
Skip today: one rest day, no pause needed
Not every day off needs a pause. Rain on running day, a rest day after a hard session, a day with a sick kid at home. Choose "Skip today" in the card's menu and the day counts as neither done nor missed: no broken streak, no freeze day, no reminder, and no XP either.
- By default each habit can be skipped 2 times per week. In the habit's settings you can choose anything from 0 to 7, and 0 turns skipping off.
- Skipping works for today only, not for days that are already over.
- Changed your mind? Undo it in the message or right on the card. Logging a value cancels the skip as well.
- For weekly goals a skipped day doesn't lower the target. That's what the pause is for.
Why you can't pause in hindsight
A pause starts today at the earliest. If you could pause last Tuesday after the fact, every broken streak could be rescued later, and the streak would stop meaning anything. If you simply forgot to tick something off, you can still fill in the last 30 days. And a day that really slipped is covered by a freeze day, if you've earned one.
A pause doesn't count as activity. Without a login for 3 months you get one reminder email, and 4 months after your last visit the account is deleted, pause or not. Logging in once during a long break keeps everything.
Questions about this
What happens to my streak on vacation?
If you pause before you leave, nothing. Paused days aren't due, so the streak simply waits and picks up again after the pause. No freeze day is used.
Can I pause a habit retroactively?
No, a pause starts today at the earliest. You can still fill in entries up to 30 days back, and a missed day is covered by a freeze day if you have one.
Pause, skip or freeze day: what's the difference?
A pause covers a period you plan, for one habit or all of them. Skipping takes out today only, by default up to 2 times a week. A freeze day is earned with 7 days in a row and steps in by itself when you miss a due day without planning it.
Do I get reminders during a pause?
No. Paused habits don't send push reminders, and during an account pause there's no evening check either.
Does a pause keep my account from being deleted?
No. An account is deleted 4 months after the last login, even during a pause. You get a reminder email after 3 months, and one login resets the clock.